Urban Atlas

Urban Atlas

The Urban Atlas provides pan-European comparable land use and land cover data for Functional Urban Areas (FUA).

• Urban Atlas 2006: 319 FUAs with more than 100,000 inhabitants
• Urban Atlas 2012: 785 FUAs covering EU28 + EFTA countries + West Balkans + Turkey
• Urban Atlas 2018
• Urban Atlas 2021
• Urban Atlas 2024

The following products can be run through the QC Tool:

• Urban Atlas 2012 (ua2012)
• Urban Atlas 2018 (clms_ua_lcu_s2018_v025ha)
• Urban Atlas 2021 (clms_ua_lcu_s2021_v025ha)
• Urban Atlas 2024 (clms_ua_lcu_s2024_v025ha)
• Urban Atlas Change 2012-2018 (ua_change_2012_2018)
• Urban Atlas Change 2018-2021 (clms_ua_lcuc_c2018-2021_v010ha)
• Urban Atlas Change 2021-2024 (clms_ua_lcuc_c2021-2024_v010ha)
• Urban Atlas 2021 Building Heights (clms_ua_bbh_s2021_r10m) - raster product
• Urban Atlas 2024 Building Heights (clms_ua_bbh_s2024_r10m) - raster product
• Urban Atlas 2018 Street Tree Layer (ua2018_stl)
• Urban Atlas 2021 Street Tree Layer (clms_ua_stl_s2021_vec)
• Urban Atlas 2024 pdf (clms_ua_pdf_s2024_v025ha)

Each product consists of a single layer and is uploaded to the QC Tool as a separate delivery.

For the Urban Atlas 2021 Building Heights and Urban Atlas 2024 Building Heights, descriptions can be found within the Raster products section of the Wiki.

Wiki pages related to Urban Atlas products are based on the following product documentation / specification: https://land.copernicus.eu/user-corner/technical-library//urban_atlas_2012_2018_mapping_guide_v6-1.pdf